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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 79. Season's Song and Fond Absence
Seasons’s Song
As constant as the song of working bees
beneath September's wan yet smiling sun,
not heeding north-set zephyrs in the trees
is love that brooks comparison to none.
Cicadas lazy largos rise and fall
and with the harvest moon soon disappear,
yet pass the autumn frost and chilly squall,
the bumbler's hum returns when skies are clear.
'Tis later when November's silent snow
upon the waiting garden lays its hush,
devotion's changeless blessings you bestow,
enchanting as the song of summer's thrush.
For love does not on calendars depend,
but sings in every season to transcend.
Fond Absence
Some distances are hard to comprehend
for mortal minds make nothing of their size
no matter how the measure’s made to bend,
they can’t conform to what the brain descries.
Across a mighty chasm photons flee
before the twinkling eye can hope to wink,
yet just how wide can synapse spaces be
which let a man consider, muse or think?
And though I understand some thousand miles
Must separate our present-bodied flesh,
Swift prescient thought makes real your laugh and smiles
Enough the weary spirit to refresh.
Connection will all journeys stand bestride;
mere continents cannot true friends divide.
As the season of Thanksgiving approaches, I am mindful of the blessing of friends both near and far.
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